Sunday, October 3, 2021

Google search operators: which do you use and why?

As for me, I don’t use all of them and not very often. Mostly Site, Cache, Intitle and Inurl sometimes. But I decided to refresh my knowledge baggage and thought maybe you guys would like to recall them too. Feel free to compliment me if I missed some. So:

Site: - it’s classic and it’s the most popular among SEOs, I guess. In this case Google will return the results restricted to the website specified only.

Cache: - it helps to see the most recent cached version of the URL specified. Fastest way to check Google's index.

Intitle: - it will help to find pages that contain specified term or terms in the title tag.

Inurl: - this one helps to find pages containing certain term / terms in the URL.

Related: - will find web pages which Google thinks are related to the domain specified.

Define: - will let you quickly look up the meaning of a given term. The result will be displayed in the form of a knowledge card.

Filetype: - will restrict the results to the file type specified. The supported file types include PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, TXT, PPT, PPTX, etc.

Ext: - is the unofficial sibling of filetype: and works identically.

Allintitle: - will find web pages that contain all of the terms specified in the title tag.

Allinurl: - goes one step further and will return web pages that contain all the words specified in the URL address.

Intext: - will return web pages that have the specified word or words in their content.

Allintext: - is similar to intext: but will return the web pages that contain all of the words specified.

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